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OPENING |
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MAIN EVENT |
In a departure from the usual
sequence of events, President
Chuck introduced Ray
Fields, who announced the
annual 4-way speech competition
finals. After explaining the
rules of scoring each
presentation and fielding a few
bemused questions from the
audience, Ray left the
stage to the contestants.
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Number 1, Reed
Bernhisel, presented
“Lessons I learned
from a Grape”, about
a memorable shopping
trip to Winco
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Number 2, Junior
Lopez, amused us
with “Waiter,
there’s a Hair in my
Alfredo”, in which a
repulsive waiter
supplanted the
beautiful waitress
of Junior’s dreams
at Rose’s Deli.
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Number 3, Iris
Buckingham, gave a
thoughtful speech
about being adopted
from China as an
infant by a wise and
caring family in
“Family: What does
it Mean?”
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Number 4, Penn Sumner,
gave us the winning
speech about a red-Mohawked,
tattooed, nose
ring-wearing, BB
gun-wielding madman in
the woods, and Penn’s
subsequent encounter
with the law in “Lying
Doesn’t Pay: Lessons
from my Childhood.”
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VISITING ROTARIANS AND GUESTS |
Esther
Frank of the Newberg Early Bird
Rotarians, guest of Russ Rainwater
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Ricky Bodle, outbound exchange student
to Chile and Tamara Borges, inbound
exchange student from Brazil were
introduced by Brent Adams.
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Cheyenne Whisenhunt, outbound
exchange student to Brazil and her
mother, Leslie, were introduced by
Bruce Huffman.
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Wendy
Buehler, Language Arts teacher at
Duniway Middle School (left) was
introduced by
Cathy Carnahan, principal of Duniway
Middle School.
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David and Heidi Sumner, parents of 4-way
speech competition winner, Penn Sumner,
and Penn
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Jean Buckingham, Ann Buckingham, family
of 4-way speech competition finalist,
Iris Buckingham.
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From
left to right, parents Steve and Donna
Bernhisel, flank 4-way speech
competition finalist Reed Bernhisel,
introducer Randy McCreith, Debbie
Palacios and Husband Marty Palacios,
principal of Patton Middle School, and
Mrs. Lopez, mother of Junior Lopez,
4-way speech competition finalist.
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MEMBER RECOGNITION, BRAGS AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Darrick Price conducted member
recognition. He started by recognizing
absent Kris Olsen for his
birthday and absent anniversary
celebrants Dianne Haugeberg
for 5 years, Gary Rueter
for 40 years and Jeff Long
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Chuck
Pattishall, 18 years. His wife is an Intensive Care nurse and practices tough love
when Chuck begins to whine about not
feeling well.
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Van Keck
was present this week to acknowledge his
43 years of marriage and announced that
his wife had the checkbook.
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Dudley Frost
announced the birth of his first
great-grandchild, Isaac Ian Cook, a name
for the ages.
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Brent Adams
began the first of his rugby season
brags: Both the A and B teams won their
recent matches.
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Maryalice Russell
thanked the members for their
condolences after the passing of her
husband. She mentioned that his most
recent Valentine’s Day card to her
alluded to their 28 years together.
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Molly
Walker
thanked the members and made a donation
to the foundation on behalf of her
father, who recently passed.
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Russ Rainwater
gave a wrap up of the Club Social hosted
by Jill Methven and her husband
at their winery last Thursday night.
Wine, prime rib, fellow Rotarians…Who
could ask for anything more?
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Darrick
announced that he’s been accepted into
the doctoral program at George Fox
University and begins classes next week
in Management and Economics.
President Chuck mentioned that Jon Triest is in the Salem Hospital, having broken
his hip.
Darrick
led us all in a fun little “game show”
that ended much too quickly for some of
us and ended in some of the members
making a donation to the club. Part of
his role, he explained, is to raise
funds for the club. If you missed the
meeting, there were swords involved—and
knowledge of American presidents from
days of yore. There was even the music
from “Jeopardy.”
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CLOSING |
Reed Bernhisel |
Junior Lopez |
Iris Cunningham |
Penn Sumner
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Following member recognition, brags and
announcements, Ray announced the
runners-up and the winner of our Rotary Four-Way
Test Speech Contest
and presented each with a certificate.
Penn Sumner will represent the Rotary Club of
McMinnville at the District Conference in Salem
on Saturday, May 2nd. The competition finalists displayed
extraordinary poise and talent. The runners-up
each received $50.00 dollar savings bonds and
the winner received $100.00 savings bond from
the club.
President Chuck then announced that next
week our guest will be Jean Erion of the Loving
Options Program. He then invited the members to
stand and recite the 4-way test, and the meeting
was adjourned.
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Photographs by LV Van Blaircom | Captions by Lynda
Wiegan | Edited for the web by
Jeff Sargent and Ray Fields |
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